Logging out and back in should have taken care of it. Even better, export LANG=en_US in the current session. HTH and 73. -- Bill in Denver On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Darrell Shandrow wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks to Janina for the excellent lead to the root of my issue with all the "garbage" characters when remotely establishing a terminal to one of my RH boxes. I used locale -a to determine the correct locale setting, then removed the .utf8 from the end of the lang spec in /etc/sysconfig/i18n, rebooted and my issue is resolved. Since I know most things in Linux should not require a reboot, how could I have avoided this in this situation? > > Thanks. >